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Title 27 — Intoxicating Liquors

Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act

§ 206. Bulk sales and bottling

Statutory text

(a)

Offenses

It shall be unlawful for any person—

(1)

To sell or offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of distilled spirits in bulk except, under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, for export or to the following, or to import distilled spirits in bulk except, under such regulations, for sale to or for use by the following: A distiller, rectifier of distilled spirits, person operating a bonded warehouse qualified under the internal-revenue laws or a class 8 bonded warehouse qualified under the customs laws, a winemaker for the fortification of wines, a proprietor of an industrial alcohol plant, or an agency of the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof.

(2)

To sell or offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of warehouse receipts for distilled spirits in bulk unless such warehouse receipts require that the warehouseman shall package such distilled spirits, before delivery, in bottles labeled and marked in accordance with law, or deliver such distilled spirits in bulk only to persons to whom it is lawful to sell or otherwise dispose of distilled spirits in bulk.

(3)

To bottle distilled spirits unless the bottler is a person to whom it is lawful to sell or otherwise dispose of distilled spirits in bulk.

(b)

Penalty

Any person who violates the requirements of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or both, and shall forfeit to the United States all distilled spirits with respect to which the violation occurs and the containers thereof.

(c)

“In bulk” defined

The term “in bulk” mean in containers having a capacity in excess of one wine gallon.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Federal Alcohol Administration Act

    Pub. L. 74–814 · 49 Stat. 1597

    Enacted · 27 U.S.C. § 206

    Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 106, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 985

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 106, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 985

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of the Treasury” was substituted in subsec. (a)(1) for “Administrator”, meaning the Administrator of the Federal Alcohol Administration, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, see note set out under section 201 of this title.

Credits

1935–1988 · 3 acts
  1. 1935Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 106, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 985
  2. 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 2, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232
  3. 1988renumbered title I, § 106, Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), (2), , 102 Stat. 4517.
Show as published

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, § 106, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 985; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 2, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; renumbered title I, § 106, Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), (2), , 102 Stat. 4517.)

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